Amena Akhlaqi; Ali Yousefi; Ahmadreza Asgharpourmasouleh
Abstract
Corruption is a structural feature of the economic and political subsystem of Afghan society. A structural feature is obligatory. Therefore, it is expected that the migrant returning from Iran act accroding to system while facing a corupt system. The question of the present study is how this process ...
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Corruption is a structural feature of the economic and political subsystem of Afghan society. A structural feature is obligatory. Therefore, it is expected that the migrant returning from Iran act accroding to system while facing a corupt system. The question of the present study is how this process occurs? For this purpose, the case study method has been used. Data come from 17 interviews, one of which was conducted as the main case. Data analysis has been done in a conceptual framework derived from the theories of the quality of political institutions, embedding, and the power of weak ties. Results show that job information obtained from weak ties leads to successful job achievement when supported by strong ties. At first, the person may turn to the legal process of employment, but corupt system motivates him /her to use strong ties which finally leads to corruption neutralization. It means that the corrupted structure reproduce itself.
Sociology
Masoud Chari sadegh; Ahmadreza Asgharpourmasouleh; Gholamreza Sedigh Ouraee; Mehdi Kermani; Mahdi Feizi
Abstract
This study explores the action, conditions governing the action, practical factors, and strategic approaches of the builders in the housing market. It is an exploratory, qualitative, applied, and cross-sectional research. Accordingly, a systematic analysis of the in-depth interview with 25 people in ...
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This study explores the action, conditions governing the action, practical factors, and strategic approaches of the builders in the housing market. It is an exploratory, qualitative, applied, and cross-sectional research. Accordingly, a systematic analysis of the in-depth interview with 25 people in the housing market in Mashhad was conducted using the Strauss and Corbin's ground theory method. As a result, 256 sub-categories were obtained, and after several coding steps, finally, based on selective coding, the central phenomenon was called "technocratic builders in the struggle for interest and credit". The obtained paradigmatic model included a set of conditions. For example, ground conditions have been formulated as "the economic situation of the metropolitan of Mashhad" and "socio-cultural changes in the pattern of urban housing". Interventional conditions include "decline expertise of housing construction", and "the evolution of the share of land value in housing prices". Causal conditions include "the ability to manage multiple activities", "having the necessary capital or the possibility to absorb it" and "awareness of market conditions". Taking strategies such as "participatory construction", "continuous construction" and "change in construction pattern" lead to the consequences like the "periodic ups and downs at the level of builder performance", "involving with the challenge of balancing profit and loss".
